GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the ...

the toilets are being implemented in households that were previously using pit latrines and urine diversion toilets. “Part of the technologies being rolled out are the echo twin leach pit ...

Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines – a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude. More than 3,300 ...

No, he was fighting for his life after he had fallen into one of the school's pit latrines. Drum sits down with Unecebo's ... Andiswa Goloda-Mboteni, his mother has a 15-year-old boy, 10-year-old twin ...

The Witness yesterday reported that the Department of Education is lagging behind in its job to replace the pit latrines at 800 schools that are still using them. Since launching the Sanitation ...

The role of a Manual Pit Emptier involves manually removing human waste from pit latrines, often using basic tools and wearing multiple layers of clothing as protective gear — gear that is ...

Visitors to some of the more rustic forest preserves in DuPage County still have to use the nearest pit latrine when nature calls. If that sounds like an iffy proposition, relief is in sight.

In 2018, five-year-old Lumka Mketwa drowned in a pit latrine at Luna Primary School in Bizana, in the Eastern Cape. Following her death, Ramaphosa launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education ...

The untimely demise occurred when both individuals fell into an abandoned pit latrine in their community. On Sunday, the Savannah Region Police identified the victims and detailed the unfortunate ...

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung ...